News this week that Fleetwood Mac are Newcastle-bound will have stirred a few memories.

Formed as a British blues outfit in 1967, the band became the subject of one of the most complex and engrossing editions of the Rock Family Trees series on television.

One biographer wrote that "the band seemed a revolving door for musically gifted and emotionally fragile singer-songwriters".

Back in the 1970s no respectable teenage disco failed to conclude with Albatross, the archetypal smoocher, which had actually been released in 1968, a year after the band was formed by Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green and John McVie.

Then there was Rumours. There was a time when everyone had Rumours in their record collection.

Released in 1976, after the band had been rejuvenated by the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, it provided four top 10 hits in this country, two of them charting during the heyday of punk.

It has been quite a rollercoaster, with drug abuse and weird religions playing their part. The dizzying fallings-in and fallings-out will make your head spin all on their own.

To play a little part in the never-dull history of Fleetwood Mac, get along to the Newcastle Telewest Arena on November 22 and see the band live.

Colin Revel, executive director of the venue, calls it a "fantastic coup". Of course, it's not exactly the original line-up. But let's not nit-pick. It should be quite a night. Tickets at the box office. For credit card bookings and info, tel. 0870 707 8000.